Top 10 Companies in Water & Wastewater Treatment Market

Water is our most precious resource and access to it, is a basic human right. However, declining water quality has become a global concern. It can directly influence the cost of providing water by utilities, reduce the volume of water available for use, and indirectly affect human health. Water pollution mostly occurs as a result of agriculture run-off, domestic sewage, and industrial effluents.

Therefore, the water treatment plants have become imperative to reduce the pollution. These plants collects effluent from industrial and municipal sources and treats it to a level of purification that enables its reuse in agriculture, industry, and even as potable drinking source.

Suez Environnement S.A. was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Paris, France. The company provides water management, recycling and waste recovery, water treatment, and consulting services. It operates in four business segments, namely Water Europe, Recycling and Recovery Europe, International, and Other segments.

The company offers water distribution and treatment services to individuals, local authorities, and industrial clients; waste collection and treatment services which include collection, sorting, recycling, composting, energy recovery, and landfilling for non-hazardous and hazardous waste to local authorities and industrial clients; and water, waste, and engineering services.

The company has its geographic presence in Europe, North America, Asia-Pacific, Middle East and Africa, and Latin America among others.

Xylem, Inc. was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Rye Brook, U.S.; The Company is engaged in the design, manufacture, and service of engineered solutions for the water and wastewater applications. It operates through three business segments, namely Water Infrastructure, Applied Water, and Sensus.

The company has its geographical presence in Europe, North America, Asia-Pacific, Middle East and Africa, and Latin America.

Dow Water & Process Solutions was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in Edina, U.S.; The Company is engaged in the manufacturing, marketing, and sale of water purification and separation solutions. The company offers polymeric adsorbent resins, which are engineered polymers; catalysts, including acids, base type catalysts, and catalysts for immobilized metals applications that are available with macroporous and gel type morphologies; electrode ionization (EDI) modules for removing ionized and ionizable species from the feed water using DC power; and TEQUATIC PLUS, a fine particle filter engineered to solve difficult water challenges.

The company has its geographical presence in North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Middle East and Africa, and Latin America.

Evoqua Water Technologies Corporation was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, U.S. The company is engaged in the designing, developing, and manufacturing of water and wastewater treatment systems. It operates through various segments, including food and beverage, life sciences, marine, mining, power, semiconductor and solar, drinking water and municipal wastewater treatment, industrial, institutional, and aquatics.

The company has its geographical presence in Europe, North America, Asia-Pacific, Middle East and Africa, and Latin America.

BASF SE was founded in 1865 and is headquartered in Germany; BASF Corporation is the largest affiliate of BASF SE, involved in the manufacturing and supplying of various products. It operates through five business segments, namely Chemicals, Performance Products, Functional Material, and Solutions, Agriculture Solutions, and Oil & Gas.

The company provides products for the paper industry, oil and gas production, mining, and water treatment; and dispersions and pigments, care chemicals, nutrition and health products, paper chemicals, and performance chemicals.

The Company has its geographic presence in Europe, North America, Asia Pacific and South America, Africa, and Middle East.

3M was founded in 1902 and is headquartered in Minnesota, U.S. It operates as a diversified technology company worldwide. The company is engaged in the automotive, commercial solutions, communications, design and construction, electronics, energy, health care, manufacturing, mining, oil and gas, safety, and transportation sectors.

The company also offers water infrastructure products like potable water rehabilitation products, protecting water pipes, protecting water tanks, protecting wastewater pipes and tanks, and protecting equipment. The company has its geographical presence in Europe, North America, Asia-Pacific, Middle East and Africa, and Latin America.

Pentair plc was founded in 1966 and is headquartered in London, U.K. The company is engaged in design and manufacture of the energy, food and beverage, industrial, infrastructure, and residential & commercial. The company operates through two segments, Water and Electrical.

The water segment designs, manufactures, and services products and solutions to meet filtration, separation, flow, and water management challenges in agriculture, aquaculture, foodservice, food and beverage processing, swimming pools, water supply and disposal, and various industrial applications.

The company has its geographical presence in North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Middle East and Africa, and Latin America.

ITT Inc. was founded in 1920 and is headquartered at White Plains, U.S. The company manufactures and sells engineered critical components and customized technology solutions for the energy, transportation, and industrial markets worldwide.

It operates through four segments, namely Industrial Process, Motion Technologies, Interconnect Solutions, and Control Technologies. The Industrial Process segment manufactures industrial pumps, valves, and plant optimization systems; and centrifugal pumps, vertical centrifugal pumps, twin screw pumps, and water systems, as well as aftermarket solutions, such as repairs, and upgrades services.

The company has its geographical presence in North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Middle East and Africa, and Latin America.

United Utilities Group PLC was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Warrington, U.K. The company provides water and wastewater services in the North West of England. The company serves approximately 3 million households; and approximately 200,000 businesses, including manufacturing companies and small shops.

The company also provides financing and property management services. The company has its geographical presence in Europe.